PhilMarket International Corporation’s (PMIC) premium quality White Copra is one of many types of agricultural produce that the company exports. As confirmed by the laboratory tests for copra of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) – the governing body mandated by the Republic of the Philippines Department of Agriculture to preside over all coconut farming, production, and trading activities – PMIC White Copra has the following qualities:

• Color: White
• Flavor: Sweet
• Moisture content: 5% or less
• Oil content: 65% or more
• Aflatoxin presence: None
• Salmonella presence: None
• E. Coli presence: None

These world-class qualities of copra are consistently achieved because of two things: the implementation of coconut planting/production best practices and the use of the most effective and most advanced copra drier, the kukum drier. Both are explained below:

1. PMIC implements the best practices of coconut planting and coconut by-product (such as copra, copra meal/cake, desiccated coconut, coconut oil, etc.) production as researched and developed for decades by PCA. From determining the optimal spaces in between each coconut tree, selecting the location of land to plant on (in order to eliminate adverse effects of unpredictable weather conditions), to using the best fertilizers, implementing the most advanced drying practices/technology, and implementing a host of other meticulously controlled factors – PCA and PMCI work hand in hand to ensure the highest quality produce of coconut and coconut by-products in the Philippines. Moreover, PMIC's coconut plantations are checked and safeguarded by both the PCA's and the company's own agriculturists and technicians throughout the whole coconut planting and production process. This ensures that aside from the implementation of best practices, PMCI's coconut farms are flexible enough to adjust to any unforeseen circumstances, thus ascertaining that our produce remains consistently in high quality.
2. PMIC uses the best, most advanced, and most effective copra drying technology: indirect drying through kukum driers. Its benefits over traditional drying machines and practices are as follows:

• Indirect drying diverts and prohibits smoke from ever coming in contact with the copra. Thus, the produce remains white and sweet.
• Kukum driers reduce moisture content to the lowest levels (5% or less) 10x faster than most copra drying machines and practices, while still retaining high levels of oil content (65% or more).
• Using the kukum drier eradicates any possibility of the growth of aflatoxins, molds, and other bacteria as it dries copra really fast and greatly reduces the time the copra is exposed outside of our storage facility.
• The kukum drier promotes environment-friendly practices as it uses coconut by-products as fuel.